Justice is served...

Ariel Castro, unable to handle a fraction of the captivity he put those women through, hung himself in prison.

People feel cheated but, he has (technically) now served his life sentence.

Of course, he didn't pay for his crimes as society wanted and he did- as least metaphorically- cheat the hangman. People hate that!

A lifetime in prison was exactly what this scumbag deserved. Killing him would not have been fitting punishment. Look as far as the outrage over his taking his own life to see how empty the death penalty really is. I'm against the death penalty because, too often, innocent men are convicted, later to be proven innocent. You can free a man from prison and give him his life back but you can't dig him up and do the same. Not in this century at least.

A lot of people would have preferred he live and be subjected to regular rape and beatings at the hands of other prisoners. Too many people see that as justice.

I've never understood that. It's giving a lot of power, even god-like power, to people we've already put in jail for crimes up to and including murder. Why the hell would we reward a murderer with carte blanche sodomy and violence? Why would we dump all over legislative justice to do this? And who is sodomizing the sodomites who sodomize our evil doers for us? And is this free-market sodomy and beatings or is there regulation? I guess I mean, are democrats involved or is this a conservative free for all?

I understand that, for example, pedophiles don't fare well in prison. This is partially because most people in prison were abused children themselves and want to strike back at those demons. I get that. But, it is also true that pedophilia is not a respected crime. It's child rape and no one respects that. It doesn't carry the weight that murder or armed robbery does.

But, what about potheads or bad check writers? Should they get beaten and fucked in the ass too? They do, from what I hear. The same prisoners who mete out justice to our pedophiles and kidnappers (if given a chance!) will beat and sodomize anybody if given the opportunity. Rape is about power and control, not punishment.

I know nobody is literally calling our nation's worst prisoners "gods" or "heroes" but, whenever I hear people say that they will be preying on "so and so" when he gets to prison, these lame brains are doing just that.

I told that to a couple of lynch mob enthusiasts from Florida who then set about writing lists of how wrong I was to think that. These two list-makers would argue if you hung them with a new rope so, delineating their arguments is a waste of time. Their premise was that I'm soft on crime. My premise was that they are argumentative idiots who put entirely too much faith in our nation's murderers as administers of justice.

These two were also in favor of lynch mobs as justice. 

I am so fucking soft on crime!  I found fault with lynch mobs too.

When was the last time a mob put a lot of thought into anything? You have probably seen  footage before where mobs always seem to be rioting, running here and there, burning this and that. No method to the madness.  The end result is carnage and death. It's never pretty. No one ever asks for mob justice in lieu of a judge or jury trial.  Would these two lunkheads?

Probably not but, one never knows. Live by the sword, die by the sword.  I guess that as long as you are with the mob, maybe they won't turn against you? Maybe...